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Article #1420Re: Help Needed Understanding Allergy ELISA Results
From: Falk Fish
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 00:00
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Food allergy is a sticky issues: most doctors do not believe that it exists (except for milk, peanuts and seafood) but laternative medicine patriots and some opposition doctors do believe in its wide array of symptoms. First, ask the lab, which conducted the tests to provide you with an analysis and interpretation. If it is a serious establishment, specializing in food allergy, they would employ a dietician, who will develop an appropriate diet program based on the findings. It is difficult to say when the presence of IgE or IgG4 reflects an on going pathology. The definitive test for allergy is the "Elimination Diet", where the suspected foods are eliminated for long periods and the symptoms are closely monitored. After elimination comes the challenge with close follow-up of the symptoms. You should know what are your family's symptoms and what is the reason for conducting those tests to begin with. These will direct you in monitoring elimination and challenge. The dietician is very important since many modern commercial foods are of complex origin, so that sometimes you will have to eliminate more foods than you would have expected, in order to avoid a components. Thus, breads contain milk products, processed fish (e.g. fish fingers) contain shellfish and other critters and hamburgers contain soybean god-knows-what. As to low level antibody: the food allerfy advocate do indeed warn that allergic reactions may worsen if one is continuously subjecting one's digestive system to this food. Therefore, try to separate the intake of such foods by long intervals. It is generally a good idea to enrich the components of your diet and eat different foods on different days (e.g. you do not have to go to MacDonald's every day: do not forget Burger King, Hardee's and Jack in the Box). By the way, which lab did those tests? I hope the above gives you some idea how to proceed, although I did not answer all the questions and certainly not in any order. Falk Fish, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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